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Bernard Liengme

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
Just to add to the discuss:
I have a Solver model (engineering problem called the four-bar crank) with 2
variables and 73 constraints of the form a=0. In XL2003 this takes about 5
seconds; in XL2007 it takes 25 sec. A 1:5 ratio the wrong way around - one
expects newer versions to be faster!
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Harlan Grove[_2_]

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
"Bernard Liengme" wrote...
....
one expects newer versions to be faster!


And it might be if you shelled out for a quad core PC with 4GB RAM and
a terabyte drive. You're probably starving the poor software with a
dual core and 512MB RAM.


Jay Somerset

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
On 26 Mar 2007 23:01:59 -0700, "Harlan Grove" wrote:

"Bernard Liengme" wrote...
...
one expects newer versions to be faster!


And it might be if you shelled out for a quad core PC with 4GB RAM and
a terabyte drive. You're probably starving the poor software with a
dual core and 512MB RAM.


Harlan, you forgot to put a "smiley" after the above response. :-)(

Sandy Mann

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
"Jay Somerset " wrote in message
...

Harlan, you forgot to put a "smiley" after the above response. :-)(


Harlan? Smiley?

<g

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Dana DeLouis

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
Just throwing this out. I would be curious to learn if setting it to 1,
instead of Automatic, makes a difference...

Application.MultiThreadedCalculation.ThreadCount = 1

'Solver here...

Reset back to default...

Application.MultiThreadedCalculation.ThreadMode = xlThreadModeAutomatic

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Dana DeLouis
Windows XP & Office 2007


"Bernard Liengme" wrote in message
...
Just to add to the discuss:
I have a Solver model (engineering problem called the four-bar crank) with
2 variables and 73 constraints of the form a=0. In XL2003 this takes about
5 seconds; in XL2007 it takes 25 sec. A 1:5 ratio the wrong way around -
one expects newer versions to be faster!
--
Bernard V Liengme
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
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dlw

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
On the same hardware, newer versions are ALWAYS SLOWER than older versions.
Either wait for a service pack that may or may not speed it up, or get a
better computer.

"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

Just to add to the discuss:
I have a Solver model (engineering problem called the four-bar crank) with 2
variables and 73 constraints of the form a=0. In XL2003 this takes about 5
seconds; in XL2007 it takes 25 sec. A 1:5 ratio the wrong way around - one
expects newer versions to be faster!
--
Bernard V Liengme
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
remove caps from email




Harlan Grove[_2_]

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
"Dana DeLouis" wrote...
Just throwing this out. I would be curious to learn if setting it
to 1, instead of Automatic, makes a difference...

Application.MultiThreadedCalculation.ThreadCoun t = 1

'Solver here...

Reset back to default...

....

Begs the question why Solver would go fubar if run multithreaded. One
would have thought it was an obvious candidate for multithreading
since it could calculate objective functions and support given
constraints at the same time, not to mention displaying iteration
results.


Nick Hodge

XL2007 vs XL203 speed
 
How does this all perform in an xlsb file. This format is optimised for
speed. As eluded to, turning multi-calc off for non multi/dual core
processors will also speed things up

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"Dana DeLouis" wrote in message
...
Just throwing this out. I would be curious to learn if setting it to 1,
instead of Automatic, makes a difference...

Application.MultiThreadedCalculation.ThreadCount = 1

'Solver here...

Reset back to default...

Application.MultiThreadedCalculation.ThreadMode = xlThreadModeAutomatic

--
Dana DeLouis
Windows XP & Office 2007


"Bernard Liengme" wrote in message
...
Just to add to the discuss:
I have a Solver model (engineering problem called the four-bar crank)
with 2 variables and 73 constraints of the form a=0. In XL2003 this takes
about 5 seconds; in XL2007 it takes 25 sec. A 1:5 ratio the wrong way
around - one expects newer versions to be faster!
--
Bernard V Liengme
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
remove caps from email






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